Modding a Wii Hori stick with Sanwa Parts for Xbox 360: Part 5

Video series going over how to mod a Wii Hori fighting stick to use Sanwa parts(JLF and snap in buttons). I also wire it up to a 360 pad(you can wire it back up to the Wii if you want).

For PCB diagrams and a ton of other info check out
http://slagcoin.com/joystick.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Sanwa
• Arcade
• Stick
• Wii
• Hori
• Street
• Fighter
• Xbox
• 360
• Mod

[falconpierce]

so i could just daisychain all the grounds onto one common ground?

[CoverlessTech]

@falconpierce If your PCB is common ground, yes. 

[TravisNRG]

can you play cod with it?

[omari246]

been watching ur vids on this mod so far, great stuff. just curious as to why u choose to solider the buttons over push on connectors.

[MrKillerdangerous]

LOOOL

[CoverlessTech]

With a square gate you know when you are in every position (back, down forward, forward, ect) and every position takes up an equal amount of area in the gate. They all take up 11% of the area, with the octo and circle gate the areas of activation are all over the place. Image search "octagonal vs square gates" on google and you will see the diagrams. Square sounds silly at first but mathematically it's the best choice and is easy to use once you get use to it.

[CoverlessTech]

It depends on the PCB if it's common or not. Each microswitch on mine had two wires connecting back to the PCB, that means it is non-common(it has a ground and a common for each one). If yours is the same all you need to do is get the JLF ready for non-common ground(watch the first bit of the video I made about it) then remove the wires from the hori stick and attach them directly to the jlf the same way they where attached to the hori.

[turboEk2000]

I'm trying to mod my tekken hori stick with sanwa parts just like you did. My question is does the hori stick share common ground and could I use the sanwa stick right out of the box. Meaning could I just wire up all the signal and then one wire to all the common ground. By the way I'm planning to use the tekken hori PCB since I'm just upgrading the stick and buttons. Any advice will help and your modification is very interesting. I don't think I would even try it. Thanks

[Lionheartghost]

Awesome, was wondering how to do all of that when reading guides. The videos helped a bunch, I have a better grasp of what to do if I ever want to mod my stick. I would have easily burned myself throughout the whole thing lol. 5/5

[vtnwesley]

Okay, THAT explains everything, and I can see why one would want to do that. I understand the buttons, but why don't most arcade sticks have a octo or circular gate? This just seems common sense to me. A square gate seems rather silly.